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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Walesa.
(d) Dubcek.

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1918 to 1940.
(b) 1840-1858.
(c) 1920-1932.
(d) 1898-1935.

3. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become farmers.
(b) Destroyed their culture.
(c) Helped them become traders.
(d) Committed genocide.

4. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Richard Spooner.
(b) Alex Pryor.
(c) Bob Protexter.
(d) David Kauffman.

5. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Intervention from the West.
(b) Stubornness.
(c) Violence.
(d) Execution of Party leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

2. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

3. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

4. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

5. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

(see the answer key)

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